So nice to see so many Twilight fans first thing on a Tuesday morning! All the goodie bags are now gone, but we still have a few mini Bella and Edward posters, anniversary stickers and bookmarks to go with the new editions 😊 #Twilight #Booksky

Join us at Waterstones Ipswich, Fri 7th Nov, 7-8.30pm, for An Evening of British Folklore, and step into a year of stories, traditions, and celebrations with #folklore expert Mark Norman (of @folklorepod.bsky.social) as your guide! Booking essential: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... #Suffolk 💙📚

The very first Ipswich Book Festival is almost upon us! Pop in for your free programme for all the amazing events: SO MANY fantastic author and illustrator talks, poetry open-mics, writing workshops, book making classes - there's something for everyone 💙📚 #IpswichBookFestival

It's #Alchemised day! This devastating dark fantasy has been causing quite a viral stir: a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy & alchemy – & the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. Reserve your copy before they all go! #NewBooks 💙📚🪐

Happy Birthday to @stephenking.bsky.social! Born at the start of spooky season, he's never quite escaped its influence, much to everyone's delight! 😁💀🦇🍁 💙📚🪐

Happy #Fearful day! A busy first half hour with lots of lovely Lauren Roberts fans, up early and battling the mad traffic to get here for their copies and freebies ❤️ #NewBooks #Booksky 📚🪐

It's publication day! Join us for our #Fearful early opening this morning at 8.30am ❤️🗝️

Poetry alert! Join #GetOnTheSoapbox on Tues 2nd at the Spread Eagle for a night of spoken word and poetry, and check out the new regular Zine Club too! #Zines #Poetry #Ipswich #Art

Poetry alert! Join #GetOnTheSoapbox on Tues 2nd at the Spread Eagle for a night of spoken word and poetry, and check out the new regular Zine Club too! #Zines #Poetry #Ipswich #Art

THIS TUES 2nd Sept! We're opening early at 8.30am to celebrate the release of Lauren Roberts' latest #Romantasy FEARFUL! We'll have the exclusive edition with sprayed edges, wibalin cover, fan-art dust jacket interior, exclusive additional chapter + free notebooks while stocks last! #Booksky

If you're in town today pop in to see James from Asmodee UK who will be demonstrating a whole selection of great card and board games this Saturday! #Boardgames #Ipswich

Good morning #Ipswich, it's #Katabasis day! We are *open*, and if you're quick, we have copies of the exclusive #spredges edition available, plus free tote bags to give away! ✨💫😈 #BookLaunch

TOMORROW! #Katabasis

Come celebrate publication day of @rfkuang.bsky.social's #Katabasis with us at our early opening event at 8.30am THIS COMING TUESDAY 26th Aug! First-come first-served for special sprayed edge editions, & free Department of Analytic Magick tote bags while stocks last! #spredges #Booksky #SFF

Just a few days to go until @rfkuang.bsky.social's Katabasis is published on Monday! It's strictly embargoed, but we've had some of the VERY pretty special editions come in and are taking reservations ready for release day! 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks #ToHellWithLove

Can you believe it's been 20 years since we first encountered a strangely glittering vampire in Forks? Join us for a special early opening on Tuesday 30th September, 8:30 - 9:00am, to celebrate 20 years of the #Twilight saga (the original #Romantasy, some say!) #Booksky #beautifulbooks #Spredges

We had a lovely visit from pupils from Whitehouse Primary School earlier this week. They each chose a book and wrote a review for our school display - and some of them have sold already. Good work! #Booksky #Kidlit #SuffolkSchools

🎨 Art is everywhere—let your pupils discover it! Our Art in a Day workshop at Christchurch Mansion gives pupils the chance to explore art in all its forms: drawing, design, drama, writing, even detective work!

Say hello to our SEVEN beautiful Books of the Month! Like what you see? Come on in and have a look! 👀 #waterstones #Waterstones #Bookshop #bookshop #bookshopping #Books #Bookish

Happy Pride Month from all of us at Waterstones Ipswich! They're here and they're queer! 🏳️‍🌈✨ #Bluesky #QueerBooks #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ #gaybooks #gaylit #Waterstones #Pride #HappyPride #pridemonth

A limited quantity of #Pokemon151 has arrived! #PokemonTCG

Delighted to have @tkingfisher.com's A Sorceress Comes to Call as our #Waterstones #SFF book of the month for June! I *really* enjoyed this one - it's a fairytale but with real bite, excellent writing & characters, & I'm eyeing up the author's entire backlist as a result 💙📚🪐 Absolutely recommend!

An intensely moving modern masterpiece, a champagne-fuelled thriller, a dark and witty fantasy, a touching true story, and empowering guide, a blazing romantasy and a vibrant children's adventure... Which June Book of the Month will you choose? #Booksky #NewBooks #BOTM

Today sees the release of @stephenking.bsky.social's brand new novel Never Flinch! Another page-turning thriller featuring Holly Gibney, a deranged serial killer, and a misogynistic stalker... 🗡️⚖️ It's also half price this week! #Booksky #Crimesky

Just under a week until our event with @darrenshan.com next Monday! Don't forget to reserve your ticket/copy to be signed: www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...

Delighted to be welcoming @darrenshan.com , author of all your favourite childhood nightmares, to Ipswich on 26th May at 2.30pm! Book here to reserve a ticket + copy of the 25th Anniversary edition of Cirque du Freak to get signed & dedicated by the man himself: www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...

We were delighted to meet author Annaliese Avery when she popped in to sign copies of her new YA fantasy The Wycherleys on launch day this morning! Signed, sprayed edged editions available while stocks last! #signedbooks #romantasy 💙📚

Today sees the launch of our new YA Book of the Month, kicking off with The Wycherleys by Annaliese Avery! A magical coming of age with a family curse, masked balls, and enemies to lovers drama! It's a lot of fun, and perfectly for fans of Divine Rivals and Bridgerton 💜 📚💙🪐 #Romantasy

Happy first of the month #Booksky! It's a busy morning in the bookshop as we have all the new Books of the Month to swap over, with TWO new categories launching this month, including a new #YA #BOTM which we're all very excited about! #newbooks

Prismatic Surprise Box is back in stock, though as we've sold half of them before I could finish typing this message: possibly not for long! #PokemonTCG

Our new Game of the Month is Sky Team – a gorgeously designed cooperative game where two players sit down as pilot + co-pilot to try and safely land their plane at various airports around the globe. Work together to achieve this, but! Once the descent begins you must work in *total silence*...

Why not buy this attractive book? Possibly at Waterstones Ipswich

Ipswich Book Festival to start its first chapter this October

Ipswich Book Festival is coming! We're very excited about this brand new celebration of all things bookish, coming to #Ipswich later this year. Pop in for a free bookmark, and visit the website for more details & to get involved: www.ipswichbookfestival.com #Booksky #BookFestival

Delighted to meet Emily Hauser yesterday when she popped in to sign copies of her new book Mythica! From Cassandra to Penelope, classicist Hauser reveals the true stories behind the women in the great Homeric epics in this page-turning bit of history #Signed copies now available while stocks last!

Hey #Booksky, it's double Plus stamps at Waterstones, today through til the end of Easter Monday! Time to buy some books! #NewBooks #ToTheBookshop!

We're very excited to welcome Mythica author Emily Hauser for an informal #book #signing next Tuesday the 22nd April, so do pop in after then to grab a signed copy! Mythica reveals the true stories behind the women in the background of the great Homeric epics: page-turning and vital! #Booksky

Perhaps best known for H is for Hawk, @hjm.bsky.social has also turned their hand to scifi thriller with Prophet (alongside co-author @sinblache.bsky.social): memories coming to life, mysterious deaths, all kicking off here in Suffolk at an old airbase 😁 💙📚🪐 🌈📚

Our Thriller for April is All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker: an absolute powerhouse of a book following the aftermath of a childhood kidnapping, reverberating through generations. So so well written, totally addictive & a joy to read! 10/10 for this one! #Booksky #CrimeFiction #Reading

Calling all #Ipswich parents, teachers, and school-adjacent people! There are some *fantastic* books on this list, and you could win a bundle for a school library of your choice! Enter (FOR FREE!) here: www.waterstones.com/win/watersto... #SuffolkSchools #Teachers #SchoolLiteracy #Reading 📚💙

Plus @sceptrebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves by making it available in all these different colourways! #MinistryOfTime #SFFBOTM 💙📚🪐 #newbooks

The Ministry of Time is a real showstopper of a novel. It has everything you could want in a springtime read: romance, intrigue, history, shadowy political organisations, time travel, high stakes thriller, LGBT+ rep and comedy! It's great fun, and hard to believe it’s the author’s debut novel! 💙📚🪐

Read Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky yet? We love it, and we’ve chosen it as our Waterstones #BOTM! A lyrical, beautiful & page-turning literary novel exploring themes of trauma, hope, human resilience, identity and memory, taking the reader on a journey across continents & centuries 📚💙

Happy National #Unicorn Day! Here are a few of our favourite books with unicorns (and you should read all of them!) Can you think of any other tales you'd recommend? Ihuarraquax in The Witcher, Skandar, The Last Unicorn 🦄 📚🪐 💙📚 #SFFbooks #Fantasy

Reading is therapy, but sometimes the reading makes you need therapy. Not naming any names… SUZANNE COLLINS 😭

Happy #LaurenRoberts #Fearless day! Big thanks to everyone who queued for the early opening this morning to get their special editions and tote bags! ❤️ #NewBooks #Romantasy #Booksky

First copy of #Fearless out the door on publication day! Thanks to everyone who joined the queue this morning for their goodie bags ❤️ Enjoy the books! 💙📚🪐

TOMORROW! Join us first thing on Tuesday for an early opening at 8.30am and snap up an exclusive copy of the special edition of #Fearless by Lauren Roberts, and fancy a matching tote bag too! Limited stock, so first come, first served!

Some more #Pokemon #JourneyTogether has arrived this morning! It's unlikely to last long, so don't delay!

Congratulations to #WCBP25 overall winner The Cafe at the Edge of the Woods by author and illustrator Mikey Please! A heartwarming, laugh-out-loud picture book tale of catering to unusual guests and using imagination. Adults and children alike have really loved this one! #WCBP